The resulting deployment plans are often sub-optimal.
#Places open with wifi software#
Wi-Fi planning, performance auditing, and tuning has always been difficult, complex, time consuming, and expensive, largely due to the complex nature of Wi-Fi technologies.Ĭonventional WiFi planning software are simplified by focusing on Wi-Fi connectivity and coverage, without taking an optimal WLAN performance into consideration. Tens of thousands wireless networks have been deployed using these plans, and they seem to work OK, until recently. The resulting plan often gives the number of required APs, their placement and configurations. These conventional WiFi planning software help WiFi designers and installers to create deployment plans for AP installation. There are already quite a few WiFi planning software on the market. Such a plan is certainly sub-optimal, which is usually the root cause of many WLAN issues business WLANs facing in daily operation. As a result, such WiFi planning software often takes a short cut by excluding many affecting factors in generating a plan.
There are so many factors affecting the performance of a WLAN that even a WiFi planning software is not necessarily able to generate optimal WLAN plans, just for a single obvious reason: optimizing a WLAN is mathematically a NP problem where the time it takes to come up with an optimal solution increases with the number of APs exponentially. The time has long passed that an engineer can plan a WLAN manually with his experience due to the complexity and scales of today’s business WLANs. A WLAN plan with optimal performance provides more capacity and better performance, and requires less maintenance while those poorly planned WLANs cost dearly in maintenance and loss in productivity.
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